HO Scale brick yard office - progress and how-to guide.

[danielb]

Continuing from the previous post, the roof has simply been covered in a metal roofing texture, and the rear of the front wall has had a strip of card and painted brick texture applied.



For the next part of the guide, I'll touch upon the similiar - though different - method used on large doors, in this instance a roller shutter.

For this, cut diagonally down from each of the two top corners, but only go 1cm or so. from here, cut vertically down from the ends of each cut, then horizontally linking the two together - this will remove excess texture paper from the centre of the newly created tabs...



...fold and glue them back just like you would with the windows.


The next stage is to apply the roller shutter door, front doorway, and a small open window.



Apply the door and the roller shutter exactly how the windows were done earlier.

For the open window, take two identical small window textures, and simply glue them back to back, creating a double sided texture paper. Apply a bead of white glue along the top edge of the window and press it into place at an angle, protruding out from the window frame.






Moving onto the front of the roof, card and texture paper needs to be added to the sides, as well as the top to form capping stones.

For the sides, card was glued in place, over which small rectangles of Union Hotel Brick texture paper was added - the white edges of this paper was coloured with a dark brown Sharpie, to stop the white edges ruining the illusion of the texture papers.




The capping stones were made by printing out a sheet of N scale Sidewalks with Square Corners texture paper, and trimming it down like this:



The paper was then folded twice lengthways down the lines formed by the joints in the paving slabs on the texture paper, and a strip of card was then glued to the inside of the paper...



...the flaps were then folded flat and glued to the card, forming a strip of capping stones, which were then applied to the roof of the structure.





Finally, some strips of wooden planking texture paper - two planks wide - were cut to the high of each corner joint on the structure - six in total.



These were then folded lengthways down the centre line, and glued in place as corner bracing on the back wall, and the front and back of the front wall of the structure.



You may need to refer to the finished photos for the exact locations, but it is relatively straightforward.


All that is left to do on the office building is to add cinderblock steps to both doorways, and the project will be complete. This will have to come tomorrow, however, as I have run out of time for today!

Finished photos (minus cinderblock steps):